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Mother who killed her toddler son and left body in flat is jailed for 15 years

Lindsay McIntosh

January 13 2012, 12:01am, The Times

The squalor in the flat in Paisley where Declan's body was foundPA

A former heroin addict who murdered her infant child and left his body to mummify in a rubbish-strewn flat for months has been jailed for at least 15 years.

Kimberley Hainey, 37, who lied to her family and welfare services that one-year-old Declan was still alive, was given a life sentence yesterday.

Judge Lord Woolman told her at the High Court in Glasgow : “You were Declan’s carer. You did not allow others to get close to him. Instead you isolated him from your family, your neighbours, your friends, and from the welfare services. None of them thought that Declan’s life was at risk. You engineered that situation.”

As well as the life sentence, with its punishment term of 15 years for the murder, Lord…